KARL ROVE Under Attack By His Own Party, being thrown under the bus in a blame game.

Karl Rove was ambitious this past election. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to sway people into thinking Mitt Romney was going to win. He was so confident in his ability he even threw a tantrum on air. And now he is under attack by his own party, being thrown under the bus in a blame game. And now it turns out, Karl may have broken the law in his eagerness.

Think Progress has uncovered that Rove’s Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (GPS) is, for lack of a better term, not-legal. Not saying that they’re illegal, but they failed to file the necessary legal paperwork to even exist in the first place.

Crossroads GPS was filed with the IRS as a 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization” located in Virginia. This kind of corporate structure is commonly called a dark money group due to its design to shield donors from any fallout associated with the donations. However, when you check with the state of Virginia, no such organization exists in their database.http://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/consumers/cgi-bin/char_search.cgiPer the law in Virginia, any such organization which is to collect $1 million or more in donations must file the proper paperwork and fees before starting operation with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs. Crossroads GPS did neither.

As a result, the shield which Crossroads GPS was to provide their donors may not apply at all. Failure by Karl Rove to cross his Ts and dot his Is might open him, and all of his donors, up to a legal nightmare scenario. He may have to return all of the money, and even then all the donors would become public knowledge, and he may be facing jail time for illegal solicitation of millions of dollars of donor money. People have gone to jail for far less severe a crime.

Karl Rove appears to have been so assured of victory that trivialities like legal paperwork appear to have not registered with him. Without a Romney presidency, Rove now may be facing an IRS auditor in his future, along with numerous complaints and other legal filings. The story of Karl Rove may make a good movie one day, discussing the hubris of greed and the failings of Objectivism.

17. Poetic Justice for Karl Rove and Citizens United!

50. You're right

Poetic justice. Yes. Karma also, which oft times isn't immediate but works in roundabout ways. It's just getting around to Rove after all the dirty dealings and damage he caused during the W Bush years. There are tons of instances of this happening to high-profile individuals. One recently that comes to mind is OJ Simpson. Some say he got away with killing his wife, but he's now serving a long sentence in jail for another, non-related matter. It's a bitch when it gets you in the end, huh, Karl?

9. You may be correct in pointing out Rove's family loyalties but..

Washington, D.C. — Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against Crossroads GPS for violating federal election law by failing to disclose the identities of contributors who — according to Karl Rove — donated $6 million specifically to fund independent expenditures in the Ohio Senate race. Additionally, Crossroads GPS also broke the law by soliciting donations to be spent on the Virginia, Montana, and Nevada Senate races, but failed to disclose the donors.

CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan stated, “Karl Rove and Crossroads GPS didn’t just skirt around the edges of the law; this time it appears they jumped headlong into a criminal conspiracy.”

Federal law requires any outside group that makes an independent expenditure to disclose the donors who contributed to pay for such ads. Groups like Crossroads GPS normally evade this law by claiming none of their contributions were earmarked for a specific purpose. At an August 2012 fundraiser, however, Rove said an anonymous donor gave Crossroads GPS $3 million specifically for the Ohio Senate race, and told Rove it was a “matching challenge” dependent on the group raising another $3 million for the race. Crossroads GPS ended up spending $6.36 million on independent expenditures in the Ohio race, but did not disclose any donors in nine reports the group filed with the FEC.

- Crossroads GPS told the FEC in a 2011 letter it understood the law, and promised to identify all donors who made contributions for independent expenditures in specific races. Because the violations were deliberate, they are subject to criminal as well as civil penalties.

16. Well, thats so optimistic of you to think that...

...And I guess someone should tap CREW's Executive Director Melanie Sloan on the shoulder and tell her that she's wasting her time and effort by filing such nonsense against Rove since ultimately, he will buy his way out.

19. Yea well, every once in a while the dragnet catches a few BIG fish.

20. Sorry, but to me it's that kind of thinking (ignore the crooks) that got us in this mess.

Most of GWBush "the special son" guys should have been in prison for past crimes.

Leave Karl alone and he will continue to conspire. Sure he is getting attention now, but it will blow over. There is always someone willing to pay him for his specialty. IMO his reaction on Faux indicated that the fix was in but someone blew it and it wasnt his fault.

32. Buy one of the jurors?

That's waaaaaayyyyy too expensive for repigs, who would sell their children & mother for a penny.

Instead, they'll blackmail a juror(s), and if that doesn't work, murder one of the jurors' family members.

Seriously.

When you're dealing with millions of dollars, and billionaire donors, and the (possible) loss of trillions in juicy no-bid gov't contracts because Obama won, don't think they wouldn't do it in a microsecond.

57. People with that kind of money are scary.

45. Rust never sleeps.....

Rove has been around since Segretti in the Nixon Admin. He skirted the law then just as he and BFEE have always done. I will be pleasantly surprised if I see him face justice in my lifetime...and I mean justice that doesn't get a presidential pardon.

5. Is this one of those things...

21. Yes. There will be a lot of whoopty-do now, but in the end he will skate

and be around to conspire again. Even though it looks like the oligarchs are mad at him, remember they only lost money and that's easy to replace. Karl is the best at what he does. The failure in Ohio, IMO, wasnt his fault. His reaction on FAux indicated to me that something went wrong. And most likely he did his part but someone didnt execute.

24. It sounds like Karl Rove will finally be getting his earned stripes - Jail

25. possible reason?

On November 12th, we received a letter from “The Protectors,” apparently a group of white hat cyber sleuths, mentioning our reward and stating that two months ago, they began monitoring the “digital traffic of one Karl Rove, a disrespecter of the Rule of Law, knowing that he claimed to be Kingmaker while grifting vast wealth from barons who gladly handed him gold to anoint another King while looking the other way.”

“The Protectors” said that they had identified the digital structure of Rove’s operation and of ORCA, a Republican get out the vote software application. After finding open “doors” in the systems, they created a “password protected firewall” called “The Great Oz,” and installed it on servers that Rove planned to use on election night to re-route and change election results “from three states.”

The letter indicated that “ORCA Killer” was launched at 10am EST and “The Great Oz” at 8pm EST on November 6th. “The Protectors” watched as ORCA crashed and failed throughout Election Day. They watched as Rove’s computer techs tried 105 times to penetrate “The Great Oz” using different means and passwords.

Finally, they issued the following warning to Mr. Rove: don’t do it again or they would turn over the evidence to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

49. Despicable Tom Delay

46. But let's consider what he accomplished. He got a shrub appointed twice who killed

the economy and our respect as nation abroad. He took a surplus into a deficit. He did his best to contain the damage from McGrumpy and the Palinoid, convinced enough morons in 2010 to regain control of the house because the shrub's work was all Obama's fault, and he just rid us, probably permanently, of the entire GOP clown car from the primary wasting countless millions from people who are too rich to notice it anymore than I'd look in my wallet and ask, "Wait, didn't I have a fiver in here yesterday?"

76. Finished? Rove? I won't believe it until someone drives a stake through his heart

The man has a certain ... resilience ... rather the way Dick Nixon had. Also powerful, powerful friends.

Although, there's always the possibility that even he may have gone too far. It would be so sweet to see the IRS go after him the way it went after Al Capone. It would be poetry if some bright progressive researcher dug up all the names of those donors whose money got insufficiently laundered -- and published them. And music to my ears to hear someone like Rachel describe his haggard shaken appearance after a quiet yet eventful dinner with the Koch Brothers.